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Work is set to begin within months on building "digital twins" of Earth to better predict the future of climate change, extreme weather and the environment

As public interest and expanded research in human genome editing grows, many questions remain about ethical, legal and social implications of the technology. People who are seriously ill may overestimate the benefits of ...

To help moles fight in the brutal underground world, evolution has granted the female mole a generous dose of 'roid rage' by tacking some testicles onto her ovaries.

Chemists have successfully used microwaves to convert plastic bags, milk bottles and other supermarket packaging to a clean source of hydrogen

Researchers report it is possible to build up a rapport with a cat by simply using an eye narrowing technique.

Direct carotid puncture is a safe and effective alternative to thrombectomy for stroke patients.

Impaired blood flow to specific areas of the brain coincides with Tau buildup in Alzheimer's patients. As cognition declines, the relationship between vascular dysfunction and Tau accumulation strengthens.

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The sense of taste in female mosquitoes is specially tuned to detect at least four different substances in blood.

A robot that uses magnetic fields to guide a flexible probe forwards might make colonoscopies less painful and easier to perform

Cameras mounted on earphones can monitor your facial expressions by the contours of your cheeks alone, which could be useful for importing facial expressions into virtual reality or lip reading

A staggering 400,000-plus excess deaths may occur in the U.S. by the end of the year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study suggests. That estimate includes people who died from COVID-19, as well as those who ...

A program that uses drones to warn surfers of nearby sharks recorded a very close encounter off the coast in New South Wales.

When people imagine "new materials," they typically think of chemistry. But UConn physicist Ilya Sochnikov has another suggestion: mechanics.

Machine-learning techniques, best known for teaching self-driving cars to stop at red lights, may soon help researchers around the world improve their control over the most complicated reaction known to science: nuclear ...

Femtosecond lasers can be integrated with electron microscopes to directly image transient structures and morphologies in materials in real time and space. In a new report, Xuewen Fu and a team of scientists in condensed...

When an optical fiber is immersed in liquid, a high-temperature, high-speed jet is discharged. Researchers expect this to be applied to medical treatment in the future. Now, a research team from Russia and Japan has expl...

Small wildlife do big things in the new docuseries "Tiny World," narrated by Paul Rudd.

(Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research) After more than a year in the Central Arctic, this Monday, 12 October, the research icebreaker Polarstern returned to her homeport in Bremerhaven...

(Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University) Dendritic spines are small protrusions from a neuron's dendrite membrane, where contact with neighboring axons is formed to receive synaptic input. Changes in the...

(Kyoto University) Researchers in Japan demonstrated for the first time the 'spinal motor module hypothesis' in the primate arm, wherein the brain recruits interneuronal modules in the spinal cord rather than individual ...

(Virginia Tech) In first-of-their-kind observations in the human brain, an international team of researchers has revealed two well-known neurochemicals -- dopamine and serotonin -- are at work at sub-second speeds to sha...